Posted by trent Huh? Needs more explanation. Are you an Apple reseller or something?

Yeah we are. We were told to take reservations for the phones, but at the last minute apple decided to fuck us over and only send 5. Needless to say we had a lot of pissed off customers.

Gotcha. That makes sense. You know what pisses me off? People all worked up about each version of the iPhone/pad/pod/tampon. IT"S A FUCKING PHONE. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE.

Posted by trent Gotcha. That makes sense. You know what pisses me off? People all worked up about each version of the iPhone/pad/pod/tampon. IT"S A FUCKING PHONE. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE.

This could apply to camera gearheads as well.

Maggots (they give me the creepy-crawly feeling), especially when they are crawling out of orifices they should not be. How can you let your pet live like that (for months apparently)? Disgusting!

Posted by vicexsquad Maggots (they give me the creepy-crawly feeling), especially when they are crawling out of orifices they should not be. How can you let your pet live like that (for months apparently)? Disgusting!

Oh god I hate them too *shudders* Story time! There was this one girl in high school that I knew who was rumored to have the messiest, most disgusting room ever. I went over one day and saw that everyone was right. Words can't even begin to describe. When she went to take her hoodie out of the closet maggots fell off of it. I didn't stay there very long.

Posted by Oryx Oh god I hate them too *shudders* Story time! There was this one girl in high school that I knew who was rumored to have the messiest, most disgusting room ever. I went over one day and saw that everyone was right. Words can't even begin to describe. When she went to take her hoodie out of the closet maggots fell off of it. I didn't stay there very long.

Sounds like moth larvae.

Posted by Byberrian Fanman Sounds like moth larvae.

Her room had rotten food everywhere so it really could have been either

Copper thieves.

Beacon's down cause of those ass tards.

Being screamed at and reamed on because the air conditioning is not working.


I was getting to the point where I was ready to go on the PA system, address the building and say:

"Yeah, it's my fault one of the pump motors in the cooling tower burnt out. I did that just to piss you all off! For the next heat wave, I'm going to not only f**k up the air con, but I'm turning on the heating boilers and crank the bitch way-y-y-y-y up!!!

Now please feel free to bite the wet end!!!"

Blah! Glad to leave work.

how much verbal and mental abuse should one person have to put up with at their job?

Posted by Samurai how much verbal and mental abuse should one person have to put up with at their job?

I use to put up with a lot, then I realized that where I worked I was "untouchable". So then I put up with none of it. Worked for 4 and a half years once I learned enough to make it harder to replace me than put up with me. That, made Walmart fun.

Posted by jeepdave I use to put up with a lot, then I realized that where I worked I was "untouchable". So then I put up with none of it. Worked for 4 and a half years once I learned enough to make it harder to replace me than put up with me. That, made Walmart fun.

I followed until the last sentence. Irreplaceable? Walmart employee? WHAT?

Posted by Samurai how much verbal and mental abuse should one person have to put up with at their job?

Good question. Depends on the job. With us, a lot of people consider us as little more than a bunch of moronic losers who can't get a real job and therefore it's somehow our fault we're being treated abusively.

On the bright side, we have Bill 168 which deals with workplace harassment and violence which just came into effect. Let's see how far it goes. I heard somewhere that certain jobs are exempt from it so I have some further research to do.

My manager leaving me to run the store alone for hours because she has a warrant out for her arrest. Lol this keeps getting better and better.

I hate it when we run out of Dr. Pepper on set. And uppity actors. And dumb ass ADs. And when they don't tell me about something that they wanted to shoot and expect me to have it in five minutes. Fuckers.

I hate it when the bodies are decomposed or in bad shape and the family still wants to have a viewing..that and when they smell.

When your hours are taken away and given to someone else at the last minute without your consent.

This is gonna get interesting. OHAI corporate!

Posted by jeepdave I use to put up with a lot, then I realized that where I worked I was "untouchable". So then I put up with none of it. Worked for 4 and a half years once I learned enough to make it harder to replace me than put up with me. That, made Walmart fun.

I looooove this. I am irreplaceable where I work. My coworker tries, literally, to get my personal days and vacations canceled just so he doesn't have to deal with some of the other douchebags and idiots that he'll get stuck with while I'm away. Nobody messes with me, people do what I say and what I need or want them to with no bitching or crying, even management asks me questions...which is damn sad, since they should know what I do already.

This is why when they offer to send you somewhere to train or learn a new skill, DO IT, ASAP. Learn every fucking thing they'll teach you, just so you can come back and do things nobody else can...and pick one or two close friends to show some of your new skills to, but whatever you do, DO NOT TEACH THEM EVERYTHING. Never, ever under any circumstances show them everything you know. You do...and there goes your ace in the hole and whatever you do, don't show management anything, they'll think you're a wizard and won't fuck with you ever again. Trust me on this one...it's why they leave me alone where I am, choosing lesser targets to fuck with.

The best thing I ever did was take the trip to Memphis two years ago...I do shit back here that they can't even figure out how to do down there. Which is, again, sad.

What's even crazier...

Management and corporate know who I am, my name even reached the vice president of our product lines, who I have never met in my life. Even the managers on the back end of the mill know who I am. All I did was take what I was given and expand on it by taking my downtime between orders that need to be wrapped and breaks at work to play with the computer system. Just taking numbers from shipping rolls and playing with them to see what I could and couldn't do. The biggest thing that no one knows...if you screw it up, it can always be fixed, and what makes you invaluable is knowing how to fix it.

Good points made by Shael.

I was one of the last people to be laid off from the bank due to my skills and the work I was doing.

Here's another thing that happened last week at work.

We had an elevator entrapment. I was trying to call the elevator company when someone comes up for his parcel. He's in a rush so I asked the superintendent to get the guy's parcel for him. Nope! Too busy waiting for a call from another trade for our air conditioning.

Luckily the guy who was waiting on his parcel decided the elevator entrapment was more important than his parcel. He only waited 10 minutes for his parcel.

As for the superintendent, I told him exactly what I thought of him at that point.

Posted by Shael I looooove this. I am irreplaceable where I work.

most of us at the back end barely speak english.